Established in 1989, the Company specializes in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas. Areas of concentration include Colonial America, the American Revolution and Federal period, American imprints of the 18th century; Afro-Americana, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the American South; law and economics, commerce, banking, trade, industry, canals, railroads, agriculture, urbanization; the American West; political campaigns and issues, presidential politics. Since 1993 David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books LLC has been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The Company, located in New Haven's northern suburb of Woodbridge, is also a member of the Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers. David M. Lesser is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, the Ephemera Society of America, and the Ancient Order of the Jackass. Susan E. Monarca, David's assistant, has been an associate member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America since 2020. We issue six printed catalogues annually. Visitors wishing to browse our stock of 10,000 titles are welcome to do so in person, by appointment.
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LIFE AND CONFESSIONS OF JAMES GILBERT JENKINS: THE MURDERER OF EIGHTEEN MEN. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MURDER OF EIGHT WHITE MEN AND TEN INDIANS; TOGETHER WITH THE PARTICULARS OF HIGHWAY ROBBERIES, THE STEALING OF SEVERAL HORSES, AND NUMEROUS OTHER CRIMES, COMMITTED IN MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, VIRGINIA, ARKANSAS, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, NEW MEXICO, NEBRASKA, AND CALIFORNIA: AS NARRATED BY HIMSELF TO COL. C.H. ALLEN, SHERIFF OF NAPA COUNTY, WHILE IN JAIL UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR MURDER OF PATRICK O'BRIEN. PHONOGRAPHICALLY REORTED [sic] AND ARRANGED FOR THE PRESS BY R. E. WOOD
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Napa City [CA] : C.H. Allen and R.E. Wood; Printed by William P. Harrison & Co. , 1864 (click for more details)ANTI-SLAVERY OPINIONS BEFORE THE YEAR 1800. READ BEFORE THE CINCINNATI LITERARY CLUB, NOVEMBER 16, 1872
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Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co. , 1873 (click for more details)TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF THE FOURTH MASSACHUSETTS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
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[np 1852 (click for more details)ALOMENA H. JOHNSTON, ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF WM. E. JOHNSTON, DECEASED. PETITIONER. TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE D. BRYAN, PROBATE JUDGE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY. .
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Charleston SC 1903 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
Catalogue 204, Rare Americana [July 2024]
A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
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Catalogue 203, Rare Americana [June 2024]
A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA